Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-06
THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY.


"A 100000 brewery is to be built at Balti-
more.
Chicago architects are quite busy upon fine
dwellings.
The silk mills are busy, and more hands
are wanted
Brick yards are springng up all over the
south and west.
Water gas is being introduced into several
southern cities.
A blanket factory Is to be built at New
Cumberland Pa
A great many apartment houses are pro-
jected at Boston.
A central labor union will soon be formed
at Lynn, Mass.
A North Chicago rolling mill will shut
down during January.
A Chicago firm has just shipped Australia
its third disintegrater.
Valuable veins of fire-clay are being found
throughout the far west.
Philadelphia parties are prospecting for a
shoe factory at Bristol, Tenn.
Several large store foundries will shortly
be put in operation in the west.
Common labor at the Troy steel works will
be reduced to Sl25 after Thursday.
There is great deal of activity among
jewellers on both sides of the water.
1t would take 1000 windmills to furnish
power enough to drive modern rail-mill
An ingenious cigar manufacturer is max
ing excellent imported Havana cigars out of
paper.
Two pumping engines of 100000 gallons
t,l
apols.
Some yarn spinners in Connecticut are
obliged to work day and night to keep even
with orders.
The Scottish Miners Federation has agreed
to work only five days per week and eight
hours per day.
A large amount of business is being done
in boots and shoes in all New England manu-
featuring centers.
A shoe-lasting machine has just been in
troduced in England by which eighteen pairs
| can be lasted per hour.
The coke workers of the Connellsville re-
| listing shall be stopped.
I In spite of the lateness of the season there
is less than usual falling off in building per-
lllJS throughout tN country.
The daily prod1tS of the Murraysville gas
field is 800 900, O0yfe There are 125 wells
within a radius of one mile.
A we,l within twelve miles of Cincinnati is
| producing 5OOO,Q09 cubic feet of gas daily,
and roars like a thunder storm.
Egypt has S25 900 acres of land under cot
ton cultivation. The European consumption
of Egyptian cotton is 425, 900 bales.
Hundreds of families are waiting foI
houses to be completed at Findlay, o., where
there is alreadya population Of $1,000.
now brick machine has just been pat
ented by an-Attanta man, and a company
with 100000 capital has been organized tc
| use it,
| large steel plant is to be erected neal
Lebanon, Pa, on a tract of forty-eight acres
just purchased. Work will be begun on i
this week.
The worlingmen of Virginia will meet a
Staunton to take steps to have convict labo
abolished and to establish state bureau o
labor statistics.
| New Hampshire manufacturing industrie
are prospering beyond all precedent. Manu-
facturers talk of enlarging capacity, an,
many are already doing so.
The pressed-brick makers of Chicago sa
there is such an urgent demand for brick
that the railway facilities are unequal t
handle all that are offered.
Six hundred artists in wood carving, an
700 carpenters are engaged in manufacturin
cigar cases, newspaper and picture frame
and napkin rings in Berlin.
The largest boiler ever made in the Unite
States has just been completed at Scranton
1t is 35 feet inches long 10 feet 6 inche
wide and II feet inches high.